Cindy Drakeman

Profile:

Dr Cynthia L Drakeman is the founding CEO of DoubleXEconomy, LLC, one of the world’s leading businesses focused on enhancing women’s economic empowerment. Cindy was the lead author of the second report for the UN High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment (March 2017) and served as a United States delegate to the W20’s 2017 meeting in Berlin.

Cindy is a member of the board of directors of Solar Sister, which is dedicated to eradicating energy poverty by empowering women with economic opportunity, and sits on the advisory council for the Clinton Foundation’s Haiti Women’s Economic Participation Consortium. She has previously served as a trustee for the National Cathedral Choral Society and as a board member of the Hilton Head Institute. Cindy has an AB from Princeton University and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Blog posts

The private sector is an essential partner in the women’s economic empowerment movement. Corporations large and small employ a significant proportion of the labour force worldwide, and their value chains touch all economies and nearly every

CARE works around the world to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. We put women and girls in the centre because we know that we cannot overcome poverty until all people have equal rights and opportunities.